Recruitment Specialist

Introduction
Recruitment specialist is responsible for the execution of recruiting plans for applicable business units, employing traditional sourcing strategies as well as leveraging new innovative recruitment approaches. This position plays a critical role in ensuring that the best possible talent will be hired through a partnership with the Business Leaders and Talent Acquisition.

You will be a partner to aligned client groups, designing creative sourcing strategies to recruit top talent, and managing the hiring processes from initiating searches through onboarding.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Support candidates throughout all stages of the application and hiring process and ensure a signature candidate experience
• Build and manage relationships with internal stakeholders and business leaders to understand hiring forecasts and recruiting priorities and to fill hiring needs in a timely manner
• Deliver comprehensive support and consultation to business hiring groups in full life cycle recruitment process
• Identify and manage stakeholders and influencers to accelerate and manage recruitment process.
• Drive recruiting activity for aligned client groups for their external hiring needs
• Develop and build a candidate generation strategy which includes industry/competitive research and sourcing tactics to attract passive and active candidates
• Execute diversity recruiting strategies to attract a diverse workforce to IBM by hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles
• Effectively leverage social media tools in alignment with IBMs Social Media and Branding Strategy.
• Meet/exceed key recruiting performance metrics
• Set high recruitment standards ensuring operational excellence and compliance

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Demonstrated recruiting experience including full life cycle recruiting
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively in meetings, email and in formal discussions
• Proven ability to build and maintain candidate pipelines for both short and long term hiring needs
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to juggle multiple demands without missing deadlines
• English language

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with direct sourcing methodologies and channels
• Ability to build deep domain expertise
• Understand business strategy and drive innovation